Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-14

sWinona county, Mimi, has suffered q
severe loss. He sold 9 farm for q, 600 some
weeks ago. keeping the money hid in his
Decker was absent and Mrs. Decker went
some distance from the dwelling. Upon re-
turning she found the house on fire and the
money gone, and barely escaped with q 6
months old child The: building and con-
tents were TO tally DESTROYED. No clue.
The Minnesota state conference of
the Methodist church will convene in Min
neapolis October:.i2 An unusually lage at
tendance is expected. Among the visitors
from other states who will be present are
Chaplain McCabe, Dir. buckley. editor Of
the Christian Advocate, and DR.. Thoburn,
sionary at Calcutta. India. Tie conference
will be held at the Hennepin Avenue Metho-
dist church. IS
Henry H. Plaugh has sued the North
ern Pacific Railway Company to recovery
Of 900 for damages to his person. The
complaint alleges that in March, 1887, the
plaintiff while riding from Perham to
Brainerd the car in which he was riding
was thrown from the track and that his
shoulder was broken, his nervous system
was shattered and other injuries sustained.
and he wants $4,000 as damages
D. G. Moak, for a long time sheriff
of Hancock county, died at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, Of paralysis. Mr.. Moaks death is
great shock to every one there. He was
highly estimated and respected citizen of
the county for many years, was a strong,
rugged, healthy man in the prime of life
and bis death hardly seems possible to his
friends In his death Hancock county. loses
one OF its best citizens.
The Wisconsin Leather company, one
OF the oldest houses in Milwaukee, has con
fessed judgement on four notes amounting
to over 100000 The company was declared
1nsoivent by the judge of the circuit court,
ana all OF It's property was sequestered with
b. K. Miller as receiver. The sheriff is in
possession of the tannery and other property
OF the company. The liabilities are stated
as exceeding $500, 0OO.
Jerry Warner of Beaver Dam, Wis,
was arrested at Milwaukee and taken to
Appleton, where he is charged with en-
beZzlen: ent. He went there and won the
confidence of an old lady whom he is al
legged to have mulcted out of $3.50. The
money in his pockets, he came to Milwaukee
and started Upon spree. It lasted two days,
and wine an frail women had used up ali
his ready cash.
A bank has been organized at Prince
ton, MIMI, to be known as the Bank of
Princeton, having paid up capital Of slO,-
tCO. with the following officers. G.. 81. Rines.
president; J. l.. Brady. vice-president;
Charles Keith. cashier. The officers and
directors of the bank are men of means, re-
liability and energy, are old settlers, and
have the full support and confidence of the
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The managers of the Rock county
agricultural fair at GAINESVILLE, had special
Sc nsation on their program in the shape of
two public marriage ceremonies. The bri-
dal pairs were Mr.. Crossman Alton and
nard, of Beloit, and Miss Nellie Blackman,
OF Baraboo. long list of present had been
offered in each case.
Yankton Special: The heavy rains
have washed out dozen bridges in this
county, and considerable damage resulted
to farm property and stock from the
swollen streams. In Yankton, an iron
bridge across the Rhine was partially de-
stroyed. One family is report drowned
by the food in the northern part of the
county.
The Iowa State Fair, at Des Moines
showed the largest array of live stock, farm
and garden products and handiwork ever
exhibited in Iowa borders. About 100 speed
horses were on hand, and quite q lot of
goods are among them: Many machinery
exhibitors erected buildings, and the f1nan-
cial receipts it is thought exceed $4,000.
Pasco (Wash.) Letter to Walla
Walla Statesman: W. C. Rowland, a
gentleman from Alexandria, Mimi, who
has been here about three months working
up an irrigation scheme, became violently
insane last week and was taken to the
asylum at Steilacoom. He was very violent
and it required four men to control him.
At Fort Maginis, Mont, Charles Pull
len was deliberately murdered by Anton
Cedron, a shoemaker, who shot him through
the left shoulder, the bullet passing through
the heart. Cedron was arrested and placed
in the guard house at the fort Both men
were of French Canadian origin, but citi-
zens of the United States
A. T. Lane, a prominent and very
wealthy citizen of Waterloo, Ia, died on a
street car at noon Of heart disease He was
Of the Union Mill Company, and
was building $4,000 residence at Los
Angeles for a winter resort.
Burglars visited the postoffce at
Fremont, Mimi, and secured quite a sum